Specialist - Sustainability Engagement

Job Description

Position Title: Specialist, Sustainability EngagementDepartment: Environment and Sustainability, Office of the PresidentLocation:KarachiIntroduction:The Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private, international university committed to global standards of excellence in teaching, research, and service. AKU is situated within the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which commits itself to social, economic, and cultural development initiatives through agencies and institutions in over 25 countries predominantly in Africa and Asia. AKU is also an agent for social development, and prepares women and men to lead change in societies and to thrive in the global economy. The university is committed to offering educational programmes of outstanding quality that speak to critical problems and opportunities and the network of university hospitals and outreach centres provide high quality health care and training for the university?s medical colleges and schools of nursing and midwifery.Environment and climate is a core strategic priority and cross-cutting theme for AKDN. While each of the AKDN agencies and institutions have their own mandates, they all have a crucial role to play in helping to protect the environment and mitigate climate change.Job Purpose:To devise and coordinate engagement across and beyond AKU in order to support the ambitious environment and sustainability agenda, as well asto provide research and communications expertise for engagement on practice changes towards environment, climate and sustainability goals.Main duties and responsibilities:

• Design and coordinate initiatives for AKU employees to support behaviour change, ideation and innovation, as well as awareness raising on sustainability goals.
• Develop impactful written content to communicate AKU?s environment and sustainability work for a variety of internal and external platforms, including website, letters, presentations, reports, dashboards, training materials, proposals, social media and others.
• Prepare regular reports on AKU environmental initiatives highlighting key accomplishments, performance indicators and learning, to support reporting requirements, monitoring, as well as to drive decision making and innovation.
• Carry out web-based and other research to support the environment and sustainability agenda.
• Support the drafting of strategies and plans to advance AKU?s environment and sustainability work.
• Working closely with various departments across the university; Effective documentation of meetings, follow-up and liaison.
• Support project management: e.g. timetabling project phases and milestones; follow up and scheduling regular discussions with stakeholders; monitoring and reporting.
• Research and engage with potential partners and funders to enhance AKU?s decarbonization work and support the development of funding proposals.
• Ensure accuracy of content and alignment with the University?s and AKDN?s overarching messaging and environmental ambition.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned by the HoD/Line Manager.

• Masters degree(or Bachelor?s degree plus five years of professional experience) from a reputable University,preferably with an interdisciplinary focus in Social Sciences, Environmental and Climate Science, or relevant Natural Sciences.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a related role.

• Experience in a Not-for-Profit organization or change management functions of reputable corporate organization.
• Understanding of environment and sustainability work in organizational settings, or strong desire to expedite learning in this quickly evolving and global topic.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage a variety of audiences (English essential; Urdu an asset).
• Proven ability toexpress researched information into summarized documents to support decision making, while paying attention to details and maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills ? capacity to prioritize and develop a work schedule/implement plans for a multifacted and quickly developing workload, to monitor progress towards goals.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with interdisciplinary and international teams.
• Strong computer skills including the Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, and if possible digital design applications.

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